With a 17-year track record, Tom brings innovation and technical excellence to NextPage® products. He is responsible for directing and promoting the company’s technological vision. Prior to joining NextPage, he was an Area Director at Interval Research Corporation—the R&D organization funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—where he co-invented an efficient delivery mechanism for broadband media, ground-breaking techniques for synthetic computer animation and a physically compact device for implementing the famous cocktail-party effect.
Tom holds a Ph.D. in Computational Biophysics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University, where he graduated with first-class honors and received the first Sir Neville Mott prize for the best undergraduate thesis in theoretical physics. Tom was elected in 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 to the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs (v|100), and was UITA CTO of the Year in 2004.
